..Despite evidence that weight loss due to improved nutrition and increased physical activity can prevent or control diabetes, there is often a disconnect between this evidence and individuals' lifestyles...

Barriers to buying healthy foods for people with diabetes: evidence of environmental disparities

..A community coalition compared the availability and cost of diabetes-healthy foods in a racial/ethnic minority neighborhood in East Harlem, with those in the adjacent, largely White and affluent Upper East Side in New York City...

Concerns about medications mediate the association of posttraumatic stress disorder with adherence to medication in stroke survivors

..Obesity and diabetes are epidemic in the predominantly minority Harlem community. To address them, a coalition of community and academic leaders tested the effectiveness of a peer-led weight loss course...

A community-academic partnership to address racial/ethnic health disparities through grant-making

Michelle A RamosMount Sinai School of Medicine, Department of Health Evidence and Policy, New York, NYPublic Health Rep 128:61-7. 2013

..Despite therapies proven effective for heart failure with systolic dysfunction, the condition continues to cause substantial hospitalization, disability, and death, especially among African- American and other nonwhite populations...

..Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) can occur after life-threatening events, including illness, but correlates of PTSD after stroke or transient ischemic attack (TIA) have not been well described...

Posttraumatic stress disorder and adherence to medications in survivors of strokes and transient ischemic attacks

..The high rates of HIV among African-born residents in the US combined with increasing immigration and incomplete surveillance data highlight the need for more accurate epidemiologic data along with appropriate HIV service programs. ..